Re: cheap passive IR webcam?

Wim Ton wrote:
Anyone know of a cheap passive infrared webcam? Even an OEM module or
something. Not the kind that need LEDs but the kind that see temp.

I'd like to play around with monitoring my reptiles at night, see what
they're doing, and what sort of body temp they're getting to....

Normal webcams go somewhat into infrared if you remove the filter.

Well, I already toasted one camera trying to do that. A quickam 5000 has the filter built in somehow; it sure doesn't come out. :-(

Maybe not
low enough for a reptiles body temperature, but you can allways light them
with some IR LEDs (B.t.w. do they see short wave IR?)

I don't know. And no-one seems to be able to answer that either.... One snake I have only comes out in the dark, so I don't want to light her up.....


Or something with a Nipkow disk and the sensor from a PIR motion sensor??

Google.... :-)
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